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12 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said:
Yeah I'm with you.
it is only the most popular sport in the world and with our aviation department pulling in people from all over the world...we could probably put together a good program like we did with internatinal players with women's hockey.......dawhoops!
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20 hours ago, nodak651 said:
Few hundred thousand more in expenses/losses, and probably more, though.
Summit League schools just don't have the resources for investments like that.
Fenton would also get laughed out of the room if he said he was bringing the Summit up to FBS football, because right now, there literally isn't a path. The WAC/ASun is already backtracking on similar comments that they've made.I agree that Summit Football (and potentially hockey) may be necessary at some point, but I don't think the Iron is hot enough to strike, especially if the goal is to attract MVC schools. They just plain are not interested.. they won't even need to take a second to think about it. Summit Basketball would need to be much closer to the level of the MVC. As the Summit improves, I think it will get there, as it's likely the MVC regresses a bit at the same time. St. Thomas also needs time to adjust it's non FB budgets to the D1 level and they need to finish building (and fundraising for) their new arena. Fenton also needs to get the new media deal put together and he needs time to let his new media strategy develop (whatever it is), in order to make the league more attractive for it's next deal and potential expansion down the road. I think when the soon to be announced media deal is set to expire is when he will start pushing for FB, if he does go that route, because he will be able to use the leagues track record with their new TV deal and the potential for adding FB to the mix to negotiate the next deal/expansion.
Fenton IS also of a similar mindset as you in regard to adding sports, by the way. Have you heard this interview? He basically says as much. Now just isn't the time yet, especially because so much is up in the air when it comes to the structure of D1 athletics as a whole and the future viability of single sport conferences.
interesting...he was very coy about how the best FB teams in the MVFC are Summit members................................
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4 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Our definitions of the word "awesome" are apparently very different
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walz gonna take away the warriors name...this will be fun.
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15 hours ago, nodak651 said:
Was thinking recently that UND should have become the Dinosaurs. Toddler is in the phase and I learned that one of the most complete Triceratops skeletons was found in ND. Logo could have been a geometric Sioux style Triceratops head. Would be the perfect shape. Dino's would have been a bomb nickname, for short. Would have been unique, and FUN! Also includes ND history and location.... missed opportunity? ND Dino's?
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57 minutes ago, nodak651 said:
Seriously. Could see something like that being a "thing". ESPN would love to show clips of something like that as well in their different highlight reels. Memorable name and we could have quickly grown our brand at a more national level. Everyone knows schools that have unique nicknames. Meanwhile, people in the Twin Cities still don't know who the Fighting Hawks are. Really think it could have been a lot of fun and dropping the "fighting" would have kept people from being reminded that we are no longer the Sioux every time our name is mentioned. I'll never get over that... like nails on a chalk board to hear Hawks after the word Fighting...
could there be a more specific "dinosaur"...i like it tho...unique and tied to ND. surprised no one mentioned that as an option.
und>maryland-eastern shore
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55 minutes ago, Smoggy said:
I've driven by women's soccer and they don't have 100 fans paying $0. I've been to tennis and it had almost as many fans as the soccer games I've driven by.
Fewer coaches as well as only 2. Soccer has 3 and 3 support staff. I'd imagine someone also helps tennis, but no one is listed.
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34 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said:
Being a fast growing sport means very little when the big 4 sports here are very well entrenched.
Probably could've said the same thing about the big 3 sports when people wanted to add hockey way back when
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8 minutes ago, jdub27 said:
Hopefully more than the last one. The was the most agreement I've seen this board on anything.
I did two... Both were one sided... But in the opposite direction on both from what I thought the results would be
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13 minutes ago, WiSioux said:
I'm sorry I can't take anything seriously that says we should start a bowling team...
reno 3 or four lanes inside of red ray lanes (obviously the ones right outside the bar)...slap a hawk logo facing washington...we good.
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7 minutes ago, WiSioux said:
I'm sorry I can't take anything seriously that says we should start a bowling team...
why? we only have one sport with a d1 national title (hockey obvy)....why can't we become a powerhouse bowling school and win some natty's! 130k views on the youtube
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2 hours ago, siouxkid12 said:
anyone can retweet anything they want without thinking about it. The fact remains that ever since the Gophers went to the B10 any rivalry that was had with WCHA schools is no longer. If you and I were sitting at Willy McCoy's (enjoying 2-1 in Bloomington) watching the UND/Gopher game this past season, you could honestly tell me the players for the Gophers like you would've back in the day when Riddle, Potulny, Vanek, Tallackson, Guyer, Brigs, Martin Vannelli, Peltier Wheeler, Stoa, Chucko, Pohl, Anderson, Hirsch, Frazee?
haha chucko...i remember calling into the coaches show and asking hak if he a. recruited chucko and b. if so do you miss his 2 goals and 3 assists on our fourth line? "i'll hang up and listen?"...as i was hanging up i can still hear hennessy laughling his ass off (assuming he got hard stare from hak)
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1 minute ago, cowboys5xsbs said:
$$$$$$$$$$
yeah..will be interesting to see where he lands...lot of kids dream of playing there and you leave voluntarily.
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4 minutes ago, MoSiouxFan said:
No, please let me assist you to make sure that you don't make a hong turn.
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why would he transfer out of UNC..title game last year...plays a lot....?
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We have the field resource already. I just believe that lacrosse has a much better chance of making it at the gate than baseball or softball, in large part due to the climate we live in. Field lacross in the Alerus takes weather off the list of concerns.And another excuse to tailgate is never a bad thing.
Some interesting stats: partipication in men's lacrosse in growing fast, but because of Title IX issues, few DI men's teams have been added.
Growth of NCAA College Lacrosse
Growth of Lacrosse Puts a Pinch on College Game
Because Lacrosse is relatively easy to pick up on, athletic ability, not lacrosse skills, are what's in demand:While the game grows at the middle school and high school level, however, Division I lacrosse remains stuck on 52 teams. That means more and more high school players are competing for a finite number of college scholarships."We've got to find a way to get the game to grow at the college level, and I'm not particularly optimistic we can do it," said Virginia Coach Dom Starsia,
"Teams like Duke and Navy and Georgetown have athletes on their roster. Were they blue chip lacrosse players in high school? Probably not. They are good athletes who have learned lacrosse. I think it's going to be tougher for the kid who grows up with a lacrosse stick in his hand, who has excellent stickwork but might be a step slow. Before, their stickwork would get them onto a college team.lacrosse is the fastest-growing game in the U.S. at every level.
Scan a list of Division I lacrosse All-Americas, men or women, and you'll find that virtually all played several sports in high school. Virginia men's coach Dom Starsia never saw his best defensive midfielder, J.J. Morrissey, play lacrosse before offering him a scholarship; he signed Morrissey based on how he hit the hole as a tailback. Starsia has recruited other athletes who never even played lacrosse before arriving in Charlottesville. "In the U.S. we play enough hand-eye sports that a kid is going to pick up the stickwork," he says. "Basically, I've got a team full of I-AA football guys." -
3 minutes ago, nodakvindy said:
Why?
great sport...growing sport...
why did und ever add hockey in 1946? are you glad they did?
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4 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said:
UND would have zero competition in driving distance. Only 3 teams west of the Mississippi. 4 schools outside the eastern time zone. That would be problematic I think.
part of my "fenton" plan is getting as many sports under one umbrella...I think at one point we had nchc, wcha, big sky...now we have nchc, summit, and mvfc. trying to get a core of schools together instead of all these alphabet conferences and affilliate schools...
kinda like when it was just the ncc and wcha...
just summit would be even better.
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Just now, JohnboyND7 said:
UND would have zero competition in driving distance. Only 3 teams west of the Mississippi. 4 schools outside the eastern time zone. That would be problematic I think.
assuming that other summit schools would add it--6 or 7
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Just now, nodak651 said:
If UND ever needs to add a women's sport. Gymnastics would be my pick.
i know what you did there....part of my reasoning on women's bowling is can you imagine the beefers ndac would send up here to play us...."up next for ndsu...darlene "the dumptruck" jenkins!" (over the speakers at red ray lanes)
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Should UND drop a sport and add men's lacrosse if it was offered by the Summit League (and which sport should/would we drop?)
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8 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
It's the letter "I" ... as in you keep saying "I want".
I and lot of others on here want lacrosse at UND...gonna do another siouxfan97 poll
Lacrosse at a "DI" UND?
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18 years of convo and 27 pages later not one of these people wanted to add (or vote) lax at UND at the expense of tennis?
where o where is siouxvolley when you need him...rip